2.7 Guiding Questions
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Guiding questions is a set of questions which consisting of some questions tells about the detail information including of main idea, supporting idea and
conclusion that can lead and help the students to provide students’ preparation
with the information, the facts and the details about the subject before they begin to write. If the students follow the questions well, they will make their story flow
coherently.
Traver 1998: 70-73 says that A guiding question is the fundamental query that directs the search for understanding. Everything in the curriculum is studied for
the purpose of answering it. Guiding questions help provide focus and coherence for units of study.
The characteristics of good guiding questions are Traver: 1998: a.
Good guiding questions are open-ended yet focus inquiry on a specific topic.
b. Guiding questions are non-judgmental, but answering them requires high-
level cognitive work. c.
Good guiding questions contain emotive force and intellectual bite. d.
Guiding questions are succinct. They contain few words but demand a lot.
But in this research, the researcher only divides the guiding questions into three major parts; main idea, supporting idea and conclusion. The question for main
idea tells about what the unforgettable experience is. Then the supporting idea tells about when it happen, with whom, how until the chronological events. Last
the conclusion tells about their personal comment for their experience.
Based on the idea, the writer assumes that one of the possibilities to be used as a guided writing is by giving guiding questions so that by answering the questions,
the students can write something easily.
Here are the example of some questions that can lead the students to write recount text and the recount text that might be produced:
Parts of Recount Text and List of Questions
Recount Text
Introduction:
1. What is your unforgettable
experience? 2.
When did it happen? 3.
Where did it happen? When I was in Junior high school, I
joined football club. I joined the club because I love sports. I had football
on Sunday morning. One day my football club joined a football
competition.
Order:
1. What happened first?
2. What happen next?
3. What happen last?
Use “Connecting Words” to show the order of events.
There were eight clubs joining the competition. At first, our club won
the match. Then we had to defeat one club to get to the final. Fortunately,
we won again. After those two matches, we had lunch in the
cafeteria. We were so impatient to play in the last game. It was the hard
one because our opponent was very strong. Finally, we won the game
with a nice score of 3-2.
The end: 1.
What was the last thing that happened?
2. How did it finish
We were so tired. However, we were happy and proud to be the winner of
the competition. It was a very interesting
competition I
my experience.
In this research the guiding questions are not only made by the teacher, the teacher helps the students to develop the questions by giving the formula of the question.
This is the formula of the questions.
WH-Word
+ Did + Subject + C + … + ?
By using the formula above the teacher helps the students to develop the guiding questions. These are the examples of the guiding questions.
Orientation:
1. When, with whom and where did you go?
2. How did you go?
3. Before leaving, what did you prepare?
4. How many days did you stay there?
5. Why did you go there?
Events:
6. What time did you arrive?
7. After arriving there, what did you do?
8. What did you see there?
9. What happened next?
10. Before going home, what did you do?
Re-orientation:
11. When did you come home?
12. What did you think of your journey?
2.8 Teaching Recount Text Writing through Guiding Questions
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